Marks & spencer to reopen in paris

A decade after its flagship Boulevard Haussman store closed its doors, iconic British supermarket brand Marks and Spencer will open a new store on Paris's Champs Elysees.

The three-storey flagship will sell M&S's internationally popular womens' lingerie, its food hall products and the Autograph womenswear line. The brand is also in talks to open up a series of its Simply Food outlets in other locations around the city, after increasing demands from expats and Parisian natives for its quintessentially British food products in particular.

"Over the past ten years the amount of demands from people for us to come back has been enormous", said chief executive Marc Bolland in a press conference on Friday. "Our company has changed in a positive way and France has moved on as well. We want to come back in an extremely positive way."